Bug Hollow
Michelle Huneven
Jun 2025 · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · Narrated by Emily Rankin
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7 hr 46 min
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'I adored it' Claire Lombardo
'Feels like watching a master painter at work' Ann Napolitano
'I inhaled this book in a weekend' Leslie Jamison
Summer, California, 1970s.
Sally Samuelson is eight years old and the course of her family's life is about to change.
When her golden-boy brother Ellis, just graduated from high school, drives up the coast with his two best friends, he promises to be back in a week. But he does not return.
After Ellis's unexpected death, the world of the Samuelsons never spins on the same axis again - especially after Julia, Ellis's girlfriend, shows up pregnant on their doorstep.
And over the next four decades, the family fractures and rebuild, again and again - in a story that takes in love affairs, illnesses, late-in-life marriages and long-hidden secrets, and shows how brief intimate connections and heart-shattering losses can reverberate through generations.
'Feels like watching a master painter at work' Ann Napolitano
'I inhaled this book in a weekend' Leslie Jamison
Summer, California, 1970s.
Sally Samuelson is eight years old and the course of her family's life is about to change.
When her golden-boy brother Ellis, just graduated from high school, drives up the coast with his two best friends, he promises to be back in a week. But he does not return.
After Ellis's unexpected death, the world of the Samuelsons never spins on the same axis again - especially after Julia, Ellis's girlfriend, shows up pregnant on their doorstep.
And over the next four decades, the family fractures and rebuild, again and again - in a story that takes in love affairs, illnesses, late-in-life marriages and long-hidden secrets, and shows how brief intimate connections and heart-shattering losses can reverberate through generations.
About the author
Michelle Huneven is the author of five novels including Bug Hollow. Her books have been New York Times Notable Books and finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a James Beard Award for feature writing with recipes, and received her master's in fine arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches writing at University of California, Los Angeles.
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